Developing and delivering a Youth Guarantee scheme requires strong cooperation between all the key stakeholders: public authorities, employment services, career guidance providers, education training institutions, youth organisations, business, employers, trade unions, etc.

11. Notes that Switzerland has adopted a number of supporting measures accompanying the FMPA aimed at protecting workers against wage and social dumping, providing equal treatment for Swiss and EU services providers and safeguarding public support for the agreement; observes that these measures can hinder the provision of services by EU businesses, notably by small and medium-sized businesses in Switzerland; notes that according ...[+++]to Court of Justice case-law a number of these supporting measures would be acceptable only if they protect, in a proportional manner, a general interest that is not already protected in the state of origin of the service providers;

11. Notes that Switzerland has adopted a number of supporting measures accompanying the FMPA aimed at protecting workers against wage and social dumping, providing equal treatment for Swiss and EU services providers and safeguarding public support for the agreement; observes that these measures can hinder the provision of services by EU businesses, notably by small and medium-sized businesses in Switzerland; notes that according ...[+++]to Court of Justice case-law a number of these supporting measures would be acceptable only if they protect, in a proportional manner, a general interest that is not already protected in the state of origin of the service providers;

24. Acknowledges that, although basic trade union rights are recognised in the Constitution, union activities are frequently blocked, and that restrictions on strikes within the civil service and public utilities are too broad by international standards; deplores the Albanian Government's recent acquisition of trade union assets; welcomes the Constitutional Court's decision of 22 April 2010 to rule this law unconstitutional, and calls on the government to return the assets immediately; asks the government fully to respect trade unions' rights and to take all the necessary legal steps to ensure that all workers, in both the ...[+++]public and private sectors, have the right to participate in trade unions;

The European public sector workers’ trade unions are also concerned, and I call on both Canadian and EU-based unions to forge a real campaign to protect public ownership in public services with democratic control rather than maximisation of private profit, but not just a coming together at leadership level but a real involvement of the rank and file to protect their public services.

ETUC and EPSU (EU trade union for services including the public sector) do not accept that employers or public services would face any insuperable obstacles to implementing the SIMAP-Jaeger judgments.